Identity
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A game about belief, becoming, and being a bug in life.
There is a place between meaning and nonsense.
Between silence and answers.
Between what you think you are, and what the world tells you to be.
This is where you wake up.
Identity invites you into a short, surreal journey through layered spaces, invisible rules, and quiet revelations. A world where platforms don’t appear until you trust them, loops trap the uncertain, and a single, all-knowing guru guides you - not with commands, but with riddles and truth, spoken like poetry and carried on the wind.
You are not human.
You are something else.
You are searching.
Expect a strange calm.
Expect wisdom that lingers.
Expect laughter that feels like insight - or insight that feels suspiciously like laughter.
You won’t be told what’s real.
But if you listen, and leap, and loop again,
you might start to understand.
Nothing is what it seems. Except the part where you're supposed to have fun - that part’s real.
“To find what you are, become what you are not.”
Controls
The body moves. The mind follows. Whether you walk the path with keys or controller, the way is open to you.
Keyboard
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Move - WASD or Arrow Keys
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Jump - T
Dash - Y
Pause - Esc
Gamepad
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Move - Left Stick
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Jump - South Button
Dash - West Button
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Pause - Start-button
Download
Install instructions
A sacred ritual, as spoken by the Guru
Step One.
Click the great shimmering button - “Download.”
Choose your path: Windows, macOS, or Linux.
This choice reflects who you are. A sacred archive (.zip) will descend into your device, cloaked and compressed. As all truth begins.
Step Two.
Seek the archive in your Downloads. It waits there, among your forgotten artifacts — old screenshots, untitled PDFs, echoes of past versions of you.
Do not judge them. They, too, once searched.
Unveil what is hidden:
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On Windows: Right-click → Extract All. Or double-click and drag it into the light.
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On macOS: Double-click. That is enough. You need not force what is ready.
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On Linux: If you are chosen for the terminal path, speak the command:
unzip filename.zip
And the shell shall part before you.
Now... enter the unzipped folder.
Within it lies the seed of becoming.
Awaken the game:
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Windows: Double-click the
.exe. You may be warned - not by truth, but by fear. Trust the file. Trust yourself. -
macOS: Double-click the app. If the gate is locked, go to
System Settings > Security & Privacy, and choose “Open Anyway.”
The system may not recognize me - but recognition is not the same as truth. -
Linux: Make it worthy with this invocation:
chmod +x filename
Then run. Not with haste, but with purpose.
You are ready.
Let go of what you think you know.
Do not rush.
Do not doubt.
Everything unfolds exactly as it does.
Begin your journey.
And remember:
“The file does not run when you click. The file runs when you believe.”
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